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The intrusion of domestic politics in Kashmir tensions 0
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- March 6, 2019
Thursday 07 Mar 2019 SYDNEY Indians celebrate the Indian air strike in Pakistan (Photo: Rahul Raut via Getty) By Priya Chacko On Tuesday, India launched air strikes targeting what it claimed was the biggest training camp of the militant group, Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) near the town of Balakot in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The
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Nepal’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission limps on 0
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- February 13, 2019
by Renee Jeffery 12 February 2019 The Lowy Institute On 9 February 2019, the operational mandate of Nepal’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP) was due to expire. With neither commission having completed even one investigation into the tens of thousands of complaints filed by victims of
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Unrest in India as it prepares for the world’s biggest election 0
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- February 13, 2019
By Aarti Betigeri 13 February 2019 With its mammoth general elections due in April or May, Indian politics is entering full-bodied election mode. India’s 900 million voters are set to decide whether to return Prime Minister Narendra Modi to office, or not, in elections that some are describing as the most important since Independence. Modi
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Best of The Interpreter 2018: Khashoggi, Skripal, deaths & duels 0
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- January 9, 2019
THURSDAY 10 JAN 2019 | SYDNEY by The Interpreter@lowyinstitute A worrying recent trend of violence outside of war zones, some of it state-sanctioned, has captured the attention of governments and, increasingly, the public. The Interpreter covered some of the best-known instances, and some sadly overlooked ones. On 4 March, former Russian intelligence operative Sergei Skripal and
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Myanmar: a country reluctant to help the world understand itself 0
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- January 9, 2019
THURSDAY 10 JAN 2019 Aung Sun Suu Kyi’s government is bound to the military (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Some have called Myanmar a struggling beauty. Without a doubt, the country is beautiful, home to a number of unique heritage sites. Yet it is also a country that claims it has been widely misunderstood. The basis to
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India: Food grains rot in India while millions live with empty stomachs 0
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- November 21, 2018
Thursday 22 Nov 2018 India has enjoyed a bumper crop, with record high agricultural production in 2017–2018. India is the world’s largest producer of millets and the second largest producer of rice and wheat. But this doesn’t help a family living in a slum on the outskirts of Trivandrum, deep in the southern state of Kerala. Thankamani
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The growing attention on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands 0
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- November 21, 2018
In recent years, these islands have been increasingly recognised as militarily important. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) By Aarti Betigeri 21 November 2018 Ecologically fragile The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are a group of 572 islands, roughly equidistant from both Kolkata and Chennai, about 1,200 kilometres each way to the mainland. Just 37 islands are permanently inhabited, by
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Modi and Abe: judgement waits on India-Japan ties 0
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- November 14, 2018
THURSDAY 15 NOV 2018 Forging a close and trustworthy relationship (Photo: Kyodo News via Getty) BY Purnendra Jain 9 November 2018 India and Japan have forged a special strategic and global partnership over the years, and Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe have developed a personal and special relationship, propelling the relationship between the
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Elections a sham in Rakhine State 0
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- November 7, 2018
By Melissa Crouch 1 November 2018 People go to the polls on Saturday in Myanmar, or at least some of them do. On 3 November 2018, the Union Election Commission will coordinate by-elections across 13 electorates. Most are to fill seats from vacancies due to deaths of senior members of parliament. There are two reasons these elections
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China: re-engineering the Uighur 0
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- November 7, 2018
Thursday 08 Nov 2018 | SYDNEY An ethnic Uighur man has his beard trimmed: religious observances such as having an “irregular beard” have become seen as “expressions of extremification” Business Insider By Louisa Lim 7 November 2018 These chilling words are stated in an internal document, reported by news agency AFP, and encapsulate Beijing’s policy towards its ethnic Uighur
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The Rohingya are stuck 0
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- September 6, 2018
by Nicholas Farrelly 5 September 2018 This is the second of a series of three articles on the Rohingya crisis, featuring Morten Pederson on the domestic drivers of conflict, and Andrew Selth on the potential danger from transnational terrorist networks. Most of the Rohingya who were forced from their homes in Myanmar last year now find themselves stuck, perhaps
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The threat within: Pakistan’s ties to China 0
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- September 6, 2018
The aftermath of a 11 August suicide attack on a bus carrying Chinese engineers in Dalbandin region, Balochistan province in Pakistan (Photo: youtube) BY Adnan Aamir @iAdnanAamir 5 September 2018 Last month, a suicide bomber in Pakistan’s Balochistan province attacked a passenger bus transporting 18 Chinese engineers from Saindak town in the southwest to Dalbandin Airport. The engineers
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India: don’t blame WhatsApp for the lynch mobs 0
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- August 8, 2018
Thursday 09 Aug 2018 | 10:07 | SYDNEY A victim of one of the mobs. Photographer: Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images By Niraja Gopal Jayal* 2 August 2018 On 17 July, the Supreme Court of India was moved to condemn the recent spate of lynchings across the country as “horrendous acts of mobocracy … which cannot be allowed
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Pakistan: the tough road ahead for Imran Khan 0
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- August 8, 2018
By Adnan Aamir * 6 August 2018 The first major challenge Imran Khan will face as the next Prime Minister of Pakistan is from the opposition parties. In the general elections, his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party managed to win 115 of 272 general seats in the National Assembly. This is short of the 137 seats needed to form
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